What are we talking about

Letterpress Workers International Summit (LPW) is an annual meeting of letterpress designers from Europe and Latin America. LPW is a short­term artistic residence, open to the public, where people work together on a common theme, sharing their knowledge and experience.

In few words: a physical social network.

Lpw started in Milan in 2012, curated by Officina Tipografica Novepunti.
Since 2014, it has been held at Leoncavallo S.p.a.

Theme of this year is Popular dance and music. Throughout the day, more than30 designers will be printing their musical traditions, at night they will be dancing them.
Join us, take part to the workshops and conferences or just come over to have a look around and have a drink!

Your life will not be the same.

FREE ENTRANCE

"For me LPW is one of the most important annual letterpress events in Europe - as it is direct communication and inspiration - technical as well as business development - between letterpress printers."

− JENS

"A group of international like-minded individuals share skills & make friendships amongst other craftspeople."

− BEATRICE

"Why are those Italians always so blooming political… even the innocent french fry is apparently an important symbol of the socialist struggle against capitalist oppressors."

− PETE

"We really enjoyed the letterpress workers of last year, we printed with a lot of expert and talent typographers and we learn a lot of new techniques everything without forgetting to have fun."

− &TYPE

"Five o’clock, it’s time for tea guys, Darjeeling or Earl Grey?"

− PETE

"Feel lucky to be part of this amazing experience in a fun and creative environment filled with inspiration and ideas."

Workshops

4th of June

15.00 – 17.00

Cheers! Nothing better than some beers.

with Jens Jorgen Hansen

2 hours of printing with wood and lead types for your brand new beer coasters.

Jens Jorgen Hansen:

Involved in the black art of letterpress for more than 20 years, today he runs a commercial letterpress print shop with focus on Gutenbergs more than 570 years old analogue technology. Beside that he works as workshop leader at the letterpress workshop at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – Schools of Design and Architecture (www.letterpress.dk).

Price

€ 35

each

Places

max 6

people

SOLD OUT

5th of june

15.30 – 17.30

Hot cards for the summer.

with Thomas Gravemaker

Are you going on holidays or will you stay at home? It doesn’t matter, print your postcard and mail them.

Thomas Gravemaker:

Thomas started with letterpress printing in 1969 as assistant in Amsterdam. After art school he opened his own studio. He moved to London, working as book designer for Thames and Hudson. Then he moved again with his wife to Paris where they opened an art studio. In 2013 they went back to Amsterdam where they create their third letterpress studio. (letterpressamsterdam.com).

Price

€ 50

each

Places

max 6

people

SOLD OUT

LAB for kids

Dance is movement, expression, color, rhythm and fun. The same happens in typography and in his heart called alphabet. The laboratory offers a physical and mental space where the child can experiment and play freely with movable wood types.The letters are signs, drawings that allow us both to compose words, and to create new forms, images and worlds related to them: types and print become a new kind of expression.

By ABiCiDì, Officina Novepunti, Spazio BK

4th of June

17.00 – 18.30

Typographical portraits.

By ABiCiDì, Officina Novepunti, Spazio BK

Minuscule eyes, round nose, narrow ears, wide mouth, pretty hair, teeth like sticks. A face, a set of typographic letters, each one different. The type becomes character, spirit and essence.

Price

€ 10

Places

max 12

Tour

6th of June

11.30 – 12.30

Guided Tour.

with Lucio Passerini

An amusing raid between inks, rollers and types; to get an idea of the used techniques, a better understanding of the printing process and to get the chances to know the printers from around the world.

The book

In 2014, during the 3rd edition of Letterpress Workers, we presented The experience, a book/catalogue of the first two editions of Lpw.

This year the project turns a bit. Starting from the main topics of 2014, Borders, we decided to do not make another catalogue of prints, focused only about letterpress.
As designers, and people who live in the real world, it is important that our work could contribute in creating a better future for everyone.

Borders is a quite difficult topic but, in this times, very relevant as well.
Inside the book we tried to speak about what we, as human beings, have in common and why it is wrong to see just our differences.